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National Herald case: 'Congress being troubled unnecessarily,' Mallikarjun Kharge accuses BJP of 'working against law'

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16th April, 2025 18:00 IST
NEW DELHI: Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday criticised Enforcement Directorate 's chargesheet against Sonia Gandhi , Rahul Gandhi , Sam Piroda and others. He accused BJP of acting against and law, saying that Congress is being "troubled unnecessarily."

Talking about ED's chargesheet in National Herald case , Kharge said, "There is nothing in the case. It was shut down for some time due to financial troubles. Sonia Gandhi tried to revive it with loans and donations. Now, they say that it is wrong to take a loan."

'What is wrong is wrong'
He further accused BJP of "working against the law," adding, "What is wrong is wrong, and we will prove it."


Kharge added that Congress will hold nationwide protests against ED's chargesheet and BJP.

Earlier today, he accused BJP of targeting the Congress party to cover up its failures.

"Your despotic Sarkar is hell-bent on targeting the Congress to whitewash its own sins. BJP's Economic Mismanagement is spiralling out of control. Desperation is gathering steam. No vision, No solution, only diversion!," he wrote in a post on X.


ED on Tuesday said that it has filed a chargesheet in Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on April 9 against Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Sam Pitroda, Suman Dubey and others, including several firms, accusing them of allegedly laundering Rs 988 crore. The court will hear the matter on April 25.

Congress slams BJP over ED's chargesheet

In response to ED's move, Congress alleged that it was an attempt to divert attention from the economic crisis the country was facing. Congress further said that this case is nothing but a political vendetta in a legal disguise.

"For the last two days, politics of vendetta, harassment and intimidation is going on. The Congress leadership, especially Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, have been deliberately targeted," Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said during a press conference with senior leader Abhishek Singhvi.

"Effort is being made to divert attention from public issues, foreign policy and economic crisis. The masterminds of this politics of vendetta are two people," he added.

"We will not be silent. We cannot be silenced. Whatever the prime minister and home minister do, we will not stay silent and we will keep raising these issues of the people," Ramesh said.

Meanwhile, Singhvi said that the case is nothing but vendetta in legal disguise. "Selective justice is nothing but political thuggery," he said. "This is the eighth wonder of the world, it is mocking justice, it represents the politics of vendetta," he added, hitting out at BJP.


Congress holds protests
Several Congress workers were detained today by police in various states as they were holding nationwide agitation against Centre after ED's chargesheet.

Police arrested Congress workers in Bengaluru and Lucknow. Meanwhile, several visuals show Congress workers protesting in other cities like Bhubaneshwar and Bhopal.


MP Congress president Jitendra (Jitu) Patwari held a foot march to the ED state office along with other workers.

BJP takes dig at Congress
Amid protest from Congress, BJP asserted that one has a "license to loot" while dismissing Congress' charge of vendetta. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said that probe agencies, which often face criticism from opposition, will not be fazed by the "threats" of the Congress.

"We condemn the threats from the Congress. There is Modi government in place. It will allow the law to take its own course," he said.


'Congress should own corruption'
"In the National Herald, they are doing politics of a very low level. This is not a political issue, it is a case of corruption. Congress should own it," Union minister and BJP leader Ashwini Vaishnaw told ANI.

'Congress acting like a slave of Gandhi family'
"The Congress party is acting like a slave of the Gandhi family. The Constitution is same for all 140 crore people of the country. There was a huge scam, huge corruption in the National Herald case, the investigation of which began during the Congress government's regime itself...The investigation agencies should be allowed to do their work", Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya told ANI.

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